As chip multiprocessors (CMPs) become the only viable way to scale up and utilize the abundant transistors made available in current microprocessors, the design of on-chip network...
Amit Kumar 0002, Partha Kundu, Arvind P. Singh, Li...
Abstract--Networks-on-Chip (NoC) have emerged as a replacement for traditional shared-bus designs for on-chip communications. As with all current VLSI designs, however, reducing po...
Tushar N. K. Jain, Paul V. Gratz, Alexander Sprint...
Performance and power consumption of an on-chip interconnect that forms the backbone of Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs), are directly influenced by the underlying network topology. Bo...
Reetuparna Das, Soumya Eachempati, Asit K. Mishra,...
The trend towards integrating multiple cores on the same die has accentuated the need for larger on-chip caches. Such large caches are constructed as a multitude of smaller cache ...
Reetuparna Das, Asit K. Mishra, Chrysostomos Nicop...
Until very recently, microprocessor designs were computation-centric. On-chip communication was frequently ignored. This was because of fast, single-cycle on-chip communication. T...